Clothes-drying apparatus



E. P. LE COMPTE.

CLOTHES DRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 17, 1918.

1,371,563. Patent d Mar-15, 1921."

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CLOTHES-DRYING APPARATUS.

Application filed December 17, 1918.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Enwnan P. LE COMPTE, a citizen or" the United States, residing at Park City, in the county of Summit and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drying Apparatus, oi which the following is a specification.

My present invention has to do with clothes drying apparatus.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a clothes drying apparatus that is extremely simple and inexpensive, is susceptible or" being quickly and easily operated and is possessed of high efficiency in that the house wife or laundress is enabled to make the drying operation a continuing operation-i. 0., can place pieces of clothes on the line in succession and move the same away from and toward the point at which she stands so that when the first piece comes back in a dried state it may be removed from the return stretch of the line, and then when the outgoing and return stretches of the line are fed forwardly, a fresh piece of clothes may be fastened upon the inner portion of the outgoing stretch. This capacity of function is largely due to the pendent charactor of the sheave. and sheave carrier embraced in the apparatus, the line being carried around the sheave in sucn manner that there is no interference from the pieces of clothes hung on the line.

Another object of the invention is to include the improvement indicated in an ap-,

pa atus which comprises a casing, a drum mounted therein and a line movable into and out of the casing and formed in part of rope and partly of wire, joined end to end, whereby when the rope is not in use for drying clothes it be entirely in closed in the casing so as to preclude the deposit of dust and dirt on the rope and the subsequent objectionable transfer of the same to the freshly laundried pieces of clothes.

Other objects and practical advantages of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section, partly in side elevation, of the complete apparatus constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention that I have as yet devised.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Serial No. 267.095;

7 Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken in the plane indicated. by the line 3-3 of Figure l, and showing the casing and the drum mounted in and inclosed by the casing together with the preferred arrangement of the combination rope and wire cable on the drum.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the complete apparatus.

Fig. 4- is a vertical transverse section, on an enlarged scale, taken through the sheave and its carrier in the plane indicated by the line d4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a view of the line or cable per 86.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

In carrying my invention into effect I provide a stationary casing 1 in the front wall 2 of which are two spaced apertures 3 for the passage of the line stretches; the said apertures 3 being slightly larger in diameter than the casing with a view to lessening the liability of dust and dirt gaining access to the interior of the casing. I

At suitable distance from the casing 1, l locate a stationary pole or upright 4 whi h is preferably, though not necessarily, taller than the casing in about the proportion illustrated.

Journaled in the casing 1 is a drum 5, properly arranged opposite and relative to the apertures 3, and provided with a crank 6 whereby it may be readily rotated about it axis, though it is to be understood that any other approved means for the manual turn-- ins; of the drum may be employed without affecting my invention. Coiled upon the drum 5 and passed loosely through the casing apertures 3 is the line or cable of the apparatus which line or cable is made up of a length of rope 7 and a length of wire 8; the same being joined end to end as shown diagrammatically in Fig.

The line or cable is passed around the pendent sheave 9 which because of its shape and arrangement constitutes a highly important feature of my invention. The said sheave 9 is tapered from its base to its upper end where it is provided with a guard flange 10. A longitudinal central bore 11 is formed in the sheave for the reception of a spindle 12 through the medium of which the sheave is removably secured in a carrier 13; the said spindle having a handle 14 at its upper end. The carrier 13 comprises an intermediate portion 15, a lower comparativelyshort'arm 16 and an upper arm 17 the latter being flexibly or loosely connected at its forward end to the upper portion of the pole or upright 4. It will be manifest from this that by reason of the construction and arrangement of the sheave and sheave-carrier the sheave w1ll rest in pendent position with its'large portion lowermost and'consequently there'is no liability of the bight of the line or cable slipping off the sheave. It will also be understood in this connection that the lower large portion of the sheave projects beyond the lower arm of the sheave-carrier and that in consequence. the pieces of clothes as they pass around the sheave are not liable to interfere in any degree with the free operation of the ap aratus. On the other hand, the pieces of clothes depend out of the way While they are passing about the sheave and hence interference of the pieces of clothes with the operation of the appa- 'ratus is precluded, and, at the same time,

there is no liability of the pieces of clothes contactingv with and being soiled by the sheave or the sheave-carrier. It will also be noticed here that the comparatively long upper arm of the carrier enables the pendent pieces of clothes to freely pass between the sheave and the adjacent support.

tion is carried out the first-placed piece of clothes will be dry, and the operator may therefore continue the operation by removing such piece of clothes, feeding the line or cable, and placing and fastening a fresh piece of clothes upon the outgoing length of the, line or cable. From this it follows that by preference the rope length of the cable other hand, one length of the clothes will be separated by an intervening space from the other length of clothes and hence the prompt and thorough drying of the clothes will be promoted. 7

After the completion of a clothes drying operation, the drumis manipulated to take up the rope length and to pay off the wire length, when, as will be readily appreciated, the rope length will be protected in and by the casing and the deposit of dust and dirt thereon, and, at the same time, the wire lengthwill be so arranged in exposed position relative to the casing and sheave that the placing of clothes on the cable may be commenced just as soon as the movement of the wire length into the casing is initiated.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by LettersPatent, is:

A clothes drying apparatus comprising a protecting casing, a drum mountedwithin the casing on a horizontal axis and arranged at a position above the lower end of the easing, a pulley arranged a considerable distance away from said casing and an endless cable having a portion of its length wound about said drum andhaving a portion'of substantially equal length extending in a double line out of said casing to said pulley and engaging the latter, said pulley being mounted to permit the cable with clothes attached thereto to be moved around the same.

In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

. C. R. Davis, J. ADAMS. 

